Chuck Haga

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North Dakota Democrats are denouncing Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer’s recent vote to reduce spending on the food stamp program and using the controversy to spur recruiting of a candidate to run against him in 2014. Two Grand Forks legislators appear to be on the short list.

UND’s new College of Arts and Sciences dean has asked organizers of the UND Writers Conference to come up with a long-term funding plan or consider scaling back or even ending the annual spring event, which for more than four decades has brought students, faculty and townspeople together with literary giants.

It’s Friday the 13th, so you may be one of millions of Americans who will approach this day with fear and trepidation — or maybe not approach it at all, choosing instead to pull the bed covers over your head and refuse all invitations involving dinner, travel, marriage or other risky behavior.

As the nation debates how to respond to the deadly use of chemical weapons in Syria, Larry Aasen finds himself thinking about one of the last Americans who died as a result of a chemical weapons attack: his uncle Oliver Brenden, a farm boy from near Hillsboro, N.D., stricken by mustard gas nearly a century ago in the waning days of World War I.

The witness, a UND professor of marketing who had mentored a new, young professor of French for three years, listened as an attorney read through a series of accusations that had been made against the younger woman, his client.

Carl remembers sibling who died last month of exposure
Carl Larson, 95, sits at his kitchen table these days and writes.
Mostly, he writes thank-you notes to people who sent flowers, wrote letters or signed cards of sympathy for the loss of his brother Bill, 98, who died of exposure last month after wandering from the farm home they shared outside Oklee, Minn.